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Adrian Rollini: Beatin' The Dog (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music September 13, 08This track is one of a series of classic recordings of what can best be described as chamber jazz led by Joe Venuti f...
Eddie Lang & Joe Venuti: Raggin' the Scale (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music February 04, 09Call me crazy, but to my ears (and to get a bit grandiose), this seems like a short-piece jazz answer to Bach's Brand...
Bix Beiderbecke: Royal Garden Blues (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music November 20, 07When the Goldkette outfit disbanded, Adrian Rollini rounded up a few Old Reliables for a gig at the Club New Yorker, ...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL BIX BEIDERBECKE
Bix Beiderbecke, artwork by Suzanne Cerny Bix Beiderbecke (1903-1931) is, in t...
The California Ramblers: After You've Gone (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music December 03, 07Nothing much happened in 1927. Oh, Lindbergh flew the Atlantic in an orange crate, The Jazz Singer launched talkies, ...
Frank Trumbauer & Bix Beiderbecke: Krazy Kat (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music November 24, 07Hollywood's Young Man With a Horn (1950), writes film scholar David Sterritt, is "loosely based" on Bix Beiderbecke a...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: KRAZY KATS
"America is a mistake," declared Sigmund Freud after visiting the U.S. in 1909. The contempt was not mutual. With typ...
Frank Trumbauer & Bix Beiderbecke: Mississippi Mud (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music November 24, 07"Just as happy as a cow chewin' on her cud," regales Bing Crosby, "when the darkies beat their feet on the Missi...
Bix Beiderbecke & Frankie Trumbauer: Mississippi Mud (Rating: 75/100) posted in Music March 09, 08How ironic that someone named Whiteman popularized jazz among the general American populace, largely by sucking much ...
Bix Beiderbecke: Sorry (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 17, 07French biographer Jean Pierre Lion twice uses the word “astonishing” to describe “Sorry.” Bix himself boasted, “I hav...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL BIX BEIDERBECKE
Bix Beiderbecke, artwork by Suzanne Cerny Bix Beiderbecke (1903-1931) is, in t...
Bix Beiderbecke: Jazz Me Blues (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music December 02, 07When a high-school teacher in Hollywood's juvenile-delinquent flick Blackboard Jungle (1955) plays this track for his...
Weekend Track Review Roundup posted in The Jazz.com Blog September 25, 08Our intrepid reviewers sometimes even surprise this seasoned editor. Their latest batch of track reviews cove...
Lang, Eddie (Salvatore Massaro) posted in Encyclopedia January 17, 09Eddie Lang popularized the guitar as a lead and rhythm instrument in jazz. A versatile and lyrical player, his recor...
A Classic Revisited posted in Miscellaneous Pages December 12, 07A Classic Revisited was a regular feature at jazz.com from December 2007 through October 2009. Five days per week, ...
101—Count 'Em!—Classic Tracks posted in The Jazz.com Blog August 20, 09I give you some credit. Every day you take your vitamins, go to the gym for a workout, take the dog for a walk, ...
The Jazz Disease posted in Features and Interviews January 21, 08by Jim Cullum, Jr. Jim Cullum Jr. is the leader of the Jim Cullum Jazz Band and proprietor of the Landing Jazz...
A Teetotaler's Toast for Tram! posted in The Jazz.com Blog March 10, 08We can’t let our tribute to Bix Beiderbecke pass without giving a passing nod to his closest musical associate, saxop...
Mole, Miff (Irving Milfred) posted in Encyclopedia June 17, 09Miff Mole was one of the first to bring the tailgate style of Kid Ory and other New Orleans trombonists to his hometo...
Reinhardt, Django (Jean-Baptiste) posted in Encyclopedia September 18, 09One of the founding fathers of jazz guitar, Django Reinhardt may have been the first European to rival, then surpass,...
Carney, Harry (Howell) posted in Encyclopedia October 20, 09When the teenaged Harry Carney came onto the jazz scene in the 1920s, the unwieldy baritone saxophone was little more...
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